Thursday, January 28, 2010

Crom

This was requested by one of my favorite people in the world, Anthony aka "Chubby," Hickey's original bassist and all around wonderful dude. Crom are oft associated with the Southern California Power Violence scene but this album is so much more than the herky jerky blasting barky PCP-core you might expect. The Cocaine Years is an amazing pastiche of various badass cultural nostalgia, heavy metal zeitgeist, and snarky in jokes. It is a tongue-in-cheek tribute to the grandiosity and pomp of metal, the sort some might find patronizing, but I think it comes from a genuine place of reverence. This record astounded me when I first heard it in 2001 and it is still a fun and funny listen. See if you can figure out all the references this record makes. Thanks, Chubby, for reminding me about this.

This album is soooo f****'n great!The only question that I have is, how much of the music is actually Crom, and how much is found/sampled stuff? Soundtrack snippets aside, I mean? In the final analysis, it doesn't matter, anyway.

I definitely know a few folks who find this patronizing but you know what? Crom couldn't be slingin' these riffs and makin' these jokes if they didn't own and love all those cheesy metal records. And sometimes, actually very often, metal is about loving something that's dumb as shit but awesome as hell. So bring me the foot of Cole Ford.

After hearing a ton of hype about these guys, I picked up Hot Sumerian Nights with high expectations. Those expectations left me sorely disappointed by what, on first listen, felt like a short 7" padded with a shitton of samples and filler. Luckily, I gave it a few more chances, and came to love it... but I never did track down this one, despite always wanting to. So, thanks for the upload; I'm sure I'll hate this one on first listen too but I'm equally sure I'll come to love it.

This record rules! Some of these dudes were also in Doomsday 1999, who were fucking slayed the one time I saw them live. Aesop, if you've never heard their second record 'Racist Unicorn', let me know and I'll send you a DL link of a rip.

Yeah more people should worship at the altar of Crom. Saw them twice in on weekend in '06 with my friends 16 Bitch Pile Up. Fuckin' awesome riffs and the did a lot of the samples live-no laptop or tape.

this record fucking rules, but my favorite crom moment has to be the opening of the second album where they recreate the loop at the beginning of pink floyd's "money" but instead of cash register noises, it's the chopping and snorting of a fat rail. pure retarded genius.

Thanks, i already got this one on vinyl, but an extra digital copy is never wrong. This is one clever album, but i think the majority of the metal-fans would dismiss this as a silly parody of their so beloved cliches and values. I was part of the metal-scene for over ten years and i know that self-deprecation humor is not a thing of most fans (but you can always grow up...)

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